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Mike McCready: You Can’t Spell Music Business without “Business”

Mike McCready: You Can’t Spell Music Business without “Business”

Mike McCready

Obvious, right? Not so much. Here’s an anecdote from today and some thoughts on the issue.
At Music Xray we send out a mass email every Tuesday to tens of thousands of artists who have signed up on our site to receive them for free. This is a link to the one we sent today: [...]

The Future of the Music Industry - Part II

The Future of the Music Industry - Part II

Mike McCready
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“It’s not show friends. It’s show business. ” - Bob Sugar (Jay Moore): Jerry McGuire (1996)
What will happen to the major labels?
The labels were only ever going to survive as long as they remained the powerful gatekeepers between the artists and a mass audience. To the artists, they are like bouncers at an exclusive [...]